{"id":535741,"date":"2010-04-20T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theres-really-only-one-way-to-reduce-debt-to-gdp-and-its-probably-in-the-cards-for-the-us-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-20T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:17:00","slug":"theres-really-only-one-way-to-reduce-debt-to-gdp-and-its-probably-not-in-the-cards-for-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535741","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Really Only One Way To Reduce Debt-To-GDP, And It&#8217;s Probably Not In The Cards For The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two charts from a UBS research report on public sector debt provide some nice insight into what deficit reduction looks like.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, they note that there really aren&#8217;t that many countries that have successfully gone through periods of reducing debt-to-GDP.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bcdd29b7f8b9a660dd30000\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And even there, there wasn&#8217;t actually any debt reduction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bcdd2c47f8b9a0513bf0400\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In other words, reducing debt-to-GDP is about expanding GDP (the denominator), rather than shrinking the numerator.<\/p>\n<p>So unless you think the US is actually going to step on the GDP accelerators sometime soon (and given our maturity and demographics, that seems unlikely) don&#8217;t expect us to go the way of these countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theres-really-only-one-way-to-reduce-debt-to-gdp-and-its-probably-in-the-cards-for-the-us-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/8tH931FB_es\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two charts from a UBS research report on public sector debt provide some nice insight into what deficit reduction looks like. First of all, they note that there really aren&#8217;t that many countries that have successfully gone through periods of reducing debt-to-GDP. And even there, there wasn&#8217;t actually any debt reduction. In other words, reducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}